How does git-diff generate hunk descriptions?
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Published on 2010-05-06T17:24:50Z
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When I run git diff the output has a nice scope hint after the line numbers for my Python scripts, e.g.:
diff --git a/file.py b/file.py
index 024f5bb..c3b5c56 100644
--- a/file.py
+++ b/file.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ TITF: Test Infrastructure Tags Format
...
@@ -1507,13 +1533,16 @@ class Tags( object ):
...
Note that the line numbers are followed by TITF: Test Infrastructure Tags Format and class Tags( object ):. The first patch applies to module scope and the description TITF: Test Infrastructure Tags Format is the module's description. The second patch applies to a method of the Tags class.
- How does git generate these descriptions?
- How can I tweak them to show the method name that the patch applies to?
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